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256 To Make Cheap Soap
Take a Can of Lye, Throw it into
a gallon of Boiling Water. After
standing 10 hours the Lye will
be clear. Then throw it into a
Boiler with another gallon of boiling
Water. When the contents are
boiling, slowly stir in 4 pounds
of Soap grease. Pour it slowly and
in a thin stream, and Keep on
stirring it well. When well mixed,
let it simmer slowly for 4 hours,
1/2 an hour before taking off, put
in a teaspoonful of salt. When
it appears done, stick a Knife
blade in it and if it drops clear
and ropy and chills quickly, it
is done. Have a was tub ready
with the bottom and sides well wet.
Pour it in and let it set. This
makes 25 #bs [pounds] of Soap clear White.
March 18 1865
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Large piece of gold
The largest piece found was at
Ballarat Australia in 1859 and
weighed 224 pounds. The second
piece in Calevera County California
in 1854 and weighed 195 pounds. March 18 1865
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Cement
Take best glue 4 oz [ounces], Isinglass 2 oz [ounces]
dissolve in mile Ale in a glass bottle [struckthrough]
glue Kettle till like thin glue.
Then stir in 1/2 oz [ounce] Boiled Linseed Oil.
When cold it looks like India Rubber.
To use dissolve it in a suitable
quantity of oil.
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To Corn Beef 257
To 1 gallon water take 1 1/2 pound Salt,
1/2 pound Sugar, 1/2 oz [ounce] Saltpeter, 1/2 oz [ounce]
potash. Boil them together until
all the dirt rises and is skimmed off.
Throw it into a tub to cool, and
when cold pour it over your beef,
and let it stand for 4 weeks. The
meat must be well covered with pickle.
The meat must be at least 2 days
Killed and during the 2 days, it must
be well rubbed [struckthrough] slightly sprinkled
with powdered Saltpetre. November 10 1866
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To Measure Belting
Rule; Length of Belt in feet Equals
the sum of the diameter of the roll
and Eye (in inches) multiplied by the
number of turns in the roll; and
this product multiplied by the decimal
.1309
Example:
Roll of 2 feet Belting
The mean diameter of roll and Eye
are 36 and 4 inches, number of turns 73
36
4
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40
73
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2920
.1309
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382.23 feet
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Brunels Mishaps page 346 Nov 30 1867 Vol 17
Taming an Elephant page 355 Dec 7 1867 Vol 17
U.S. Vessel in an Earthquake 409 Dec 28 1867 Vol 17
Strange Ciphers 275 Vol 17
Rockwells Bitt page 4 July 3 1869 Vol 21
Article on "Punch" page 184 Sept 18 1869 Vol 21
The Death Watch Beetle Page 229 Oct 9 1869 Vol 21
Hand Vice Vol 21 328
Saw Filing Vol 21 358
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